the ending.

sleepers &
dogger

or Temple of the Golden Pavillion both by Yukio Mishima.

which is my favourite book ever <3 and i need to read it again.

Resurrection was a bit miserable too, though i'm not sure why

in defiance of established norms, I didn't find Anna Karenina miserable

The bit when they're in the land of the dead. Boo hoo.

is still the only book that can jerk tears from these jaded eyes...

The Heart Is A Lonely Hunter by Carson McCullers or Tender Is The Night by F. Scott Fitzgerald.

I was also massively emotional when I finished War & Peace

but American Scream by Cynthia True.

not strictly a book though

When Piccadilly gets totally pwned by jupiter. :'(

it was told completely through eyewitnesses. very sad.

Which isn't so much sad as horrifying but, since books rarely if ever leave me truly sad, will have to suffice.

when Dave Eggers' parents die in A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius. :(

I've never cried at a book apart from that, and I totally wept at the end.

Sleepers is really fucking sad.

And The Amber Spyglass, which made me cry like a big girl.

By Ka-tzetnik. Just incredibly fucking grim

damn you Happy Prince! Damn you Selfish Giant!

I was completely addicted to Crow Road by Ian Bainks.

:''''''''''''''(

Guy compiled a story of how he met his fiance, their plans of marriage and children, shares anecdotes (amusing ones), provides copies of letters and postcards they sent one another, then details how she got diagnosed with cancer and describes the treatment process and her eventual death. I cried like a baby.

by John someone. Such a terribly sad ending.

I challenge anyone to read it and not cry at the ending.

http://www.amazon.com/Blue-Black-Five-Star-Paperback/dp/1852427604/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1216200720&sr=1-1

Hundreds of awful looking books about traumatic childhoods, alcoholism, abuse etc...don't really understand why people read them. I'm sure there must be some kind of "but with the power of X, I got through Y" inspirational last chapter, but they seem so predictable and miserable.

"every Sunday four-year-old Tommy's family goes to visit his grandparents. His grandmother is always busy downstairs, but his great-grandmother is always to be found in bed upstairs, because she is 94 years old. Tommy loves both of his nanas and the time he spends with them. He is desolate when his upstairs nana dies, but his mother comforts him by explaining that "'she will come back in your memory whenever you think about her'."

made me feel very sad.

.

stuart: a life backwards.

'head full of blue' was quite sad, but redemptive by the end.

'The Heart is a Lonely Hunter' is pretty bleak, as has been mentioned.

By Dan Rhodes.
I had a lump in my throat by the end of it.

Or maybe the sequel where Fox's son dies

i never wanted it to end tho i think i cried all the way through. i am pathetic i know.

it makes my spine ache

i cried on the train because of this book!

So sad, so moving. And it has a super intelligent mouse.